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1、The1941HistoriesofSuperiorTownshipSchoolsIn1940JuliusW.Haab,WashtenawCountyCommissionerofSchools,requestedthateachoftheruralschoolsinWashtenawCountywriteahistoryoftheirschool.Anoutlinewasprovidedofwhatshouldbeincluded(seeAppendix2).Theresultinghistorieswereofvaryi
2、ngdiligenceandlength.Somewerehandwrittenincursivebythestudents;otherstypewritten,evidentlybytheteacheroraparent.Consequentlyspelling,grammar,syntax,andmostimportantlycontent,variesfromhistorytohistory.However,thehistoriesareallnoteworthyandallcontainthosefirsthand
3、accountsthatmakelocalhistorysointeresting.AllofthesehistoriesarenowretainedbytheBentleyHistoricalLibraryinAnnArbor.TheyarefiledunderthenameWashtenawIntermediateSchoolDistrict,callnumber85487Bi2.ThehistoriesareinBox1arrangedbytownship.Onthefollowingpagesaretranscri
4、ptsofthe1941Historyofthe10schooldistrictsthatcomprisedtheschoolsofSuperiorTownshipatthattime.District#11District#2FrainsLakeSchoolDistrict#3FreeChurchSchoolDistrict#4CrippenSchoolDistrict#5GaleSchoolDistrict#6BennettSchoolDistrict#7KimmelSchoolDistrict#8Fractional
5、District#1TownLineSchoolFractionalDistrict#2DixboroSchoolFractionalDistrict#3FowlerSchoolFractionalDistrict#4GeerSchoolFractionalDistrictreferstothefactthattheschoolaccommodatedstudentsfromtwoormoretownships.Thetownshipinwhichtheschoolbuildingwaslocatedadministere
6、dthedistrict.Itisevidentthatthestudents,inwritingthesehistories,insomecasesconsultedanumberofsourcesincludingtheCharlesC.Chapman1881HistoryofWashtenawCounty,SamuelW.Beakes1906PastandPresentofWashtenawCounty,earlycountymapsandatlases,andschoolrecords.Theyalsointerv
7、iewedformerteachersandstudentsoftheirschoolandlongtimeresidentsoftheirarea.Keepinmindthatthesehistoriesdatefrom1941andwerewrittenbystudentsofvariousagesandgrades,noneexceedingtheeighthgradelevel.Someoftheinformationtheycontainmaybeincorrect.Itispresumedthattheteac
8、hersineachschoolparticipatedinthepreparationandeditingofthesehistoriestosomeextent,anditisapparentthatthisparticipationrangedfromverylittletoconsiderabl
